Telecine Makes Fun, Animated Digital Signage Master Class Sessions Available For Free September 22, 2021 by Super User The good people over at Montreal content-centric solutions provider Telecine have released a free “Digital Signage Master Class” built around a quirky, slightly snarky animated Content Queen named Nicky. The online video course spans eight weeks and covers subjects like Project Planning, Software, Data Analytics, Digital Signage Templates and Audience Measurement. “We designed this course …
MoodMedia Bulks Up In-Store Media Footprint In Acquiring Competitor PlayNetwork September 22, 2021 by Super User Mood Media has acquired longtime competitor PlayNetwork from its owner Octave Group, bulking up Mood’s overall footprint for in-store media solutions like digital signage and streaming ambient music. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement. Mood says it reaches more than 150 million consumers each day via some 500,000 subscriber locations in …
Quividi Adds AI-Driven Motor Vehicle Counting, Classification, To DOOH Audience Measurement Toolset September 22, 2021 by Super User The longtime audience measurement firm Quividi, which has been doing computer vision long before that name grew common, has added vehicle detection and classification to its feature set – with the intent of helping more accurately characterize motorist audiences for roadside digital OOH networks. Interestingly, and I am not entirely sure why, the French firm …
New Reflect Retail Study Reveals Big Appetite In US For Bringing Online Shopping Features To Physical Stores September 22, 2021 by Super User The Dallas CMS software firm Reflect has pushed out the executive summary of findings generated from a recent survey of 1,600 Americans on their preferences for shopping and the role of technology coming out of this pandemic. The national study – called In-Store Shopping: Hiccups & Hangups of 2021 – showed a significant thirst for …
Time’s Running Out – Get Your Entries In For The 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards! September 21, 2021 by Super User A last reminder that vendors, service providers and end-users like network operators and agencies have a little more than a week left to pull together submissions for the 2022 edition of the global Digital Signage Awards, which are backed, in part, by Sixteen:Nine. As I have noted a number of times, a little bit of …
Dutch Artist Does Cascade Of LCD Screens To Create Very Different Digital Waterfall September 21, 2021 by Super User There have been many, many digital waterfalls developed and deployed in recent years as LED video walls grew increasingly commonplace, but here’s one that took an entirely different approach. This is an amalgam of waterfalls videos on a set of LCD displays stacked and somewhat scattered into what looks kinda sorta like a cascading waterfall …
BroadSign Forms Consortium To Chase In-Retail Software And Ad Opportunities September 21, 2021 by Super User Something of a consortium of familiar vendors and service providers in the digital signage sector have linked up to go after the retail market with a model that could include monetization through third-party and endemic advertising. Broadsign has announced what it calls a “joint effort” with visual solutions company Gable, managed network services and solutions …
LG Reseller Tests Transparent LED Window Film In Maine C-Store September 21, 2021 by Super User I haven’t seen that many examples yet of LG’s transparent LED window film in the wild, so I was intrigued to learn how a C-store was using the technology as a kind of digital window cling. The retail-focused technology integration firm Abierto Networks tested the display giant’s 14mm pixel pitch film was used at a …
New Urban Format For Vienna Ikea Has 100+ Digital Signage Screens September 20, 2021 by Super User The German-language consultancy and publisher Invidis has an interesting post up today that takes an extensive look inside a new urban concept Ikea store in Vienna, Austria. While most people who know Ikea know about giant parking lots and loading areas for flat-packed furniture, but this one is an inner city setting where parking is …
The Tiresome “DOOH Cameras Are Spying On Me Thing” Is Back, This Time In Greater Vancouver September 17, 2021 by Super User Via Digital Signage Pulse The age-old “those cameras are spying on me” thing, involving digital OOH ad displays, has reared its tiresome head yet again, this time in lower mainland British Columbia. Business In Vancouver has a story up this week that poses the inflammatory question: Is your bus stop watching you again? Well, yes, …
